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Five World-Changing Software Innovations

LeanEssays

Amazon had started out with the standard enterprise architecture: a big front end coupled to a big back end. But the company was growing much faster than this architecture could support. This process required keeping multiple copies of all data, so when hardware failed the data it held was available in another location.

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Extending Democratization of Storage Services Through Virtualization

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

Midrange customers can enjoy all the high end functions that are normally only available on high end systems since Hitachi’s VSP platform is powered by one Storage Virtualization Operating System RF (SVOS RF). We announced storage virtualization in 2004 with our Universal Storage Platform (USP).

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

As the company outgrew its traditional cathedral-style software architecture in the early 2000’s, the leadership team felt that the growing pains could be addressed with better communication between teams. Bezos declared that teams should be small enough to be fed with two pizzas, and these teams should operate independently.